While Andrew Scudamore, 57, also from Cambridge, said: “It's hysterical. With all the people in America, they picked those two and that idiot won. You couldn't make it up.”

Andrew Scudamore.

Tadzio Tavares, a 22-year-old Cambridge student in the Department of Zoology, said: “I think it's terrible, it's almost as bad as Brexit. I felt the same way about this as I did for Brexit: I thought it wouldn't happen.”